docs(ack-pay): document a minimal human approval flow

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Summary

• expand the existing ACK-Pay human oversight guide with a concrete pre-execution approval flow
• document minimal application-level PaymentApprovalRequest and PaymentApprovalDecision shapes
• show how an approval request can gate payment execution without turning ACK-Pay into a workflow engine
• call out expiry, replay protection, authenticated approval channels, and audit context as application/policy concerns

Addresses #93.

Scope

This is intentionally docs-only. The proposed approval objects are explicitly non-normative and are not exported from @agentcommercekit/ack-pay, keeping the first slice small while giving implementers a shared example shape and lifecycle.

Testing

Documentation-only change; no runtime code changed.

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This contribution was prepared with ChatGPT (GPT-5.6 Sol) assistance for repository navigation, issue/PR overlap checking, drafting the documentation update, and preparing the pull request. I reviewed the final change and understand the documented approval flow and its boundary with ACK-Pay.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added a non-normative guide for approval workflows in ACK-Pay.
  • Documented request and decision formats, pre-execution approval, and denial handling.
  • Included a TypeScript usage example.
  • Added guidance on authentication, expiration, replay protection, and auditing.

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Changes

ACK-Pay HITL approval

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Approval contract and execution flow docs/ack-pay/hitl.mdx	The documentation adds illustrative PaymentApprovalRequest and PaymentApprovalDecision objects. It defines a seven-step approval flow before payment execution and keeps receipt processing unchanged.
Approval example and control guidance docs/ack-pay/hitl.mdx	The documentation adds TypeScript examples for approval-gated execution and describes authentication, expiry, replay protection, and auditing requirements.

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This is a localized documentation-only change with no runtime behavior changes; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Possibly related issues

• feat(ack-pay): add minimal approval request and decision model #93 — The documentation adds the ACK-Pay approval model and HITL example flow described by this issue.

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In `@docs/ack-pay/hitl.mdx`:
- Around line 83-85: Update the approval validation flow before the decision
check to authenticate the approval response, require approvalDecision.requestId
to match approvalRequest.id, and reject missing, invalid, or expired
approvalRequest.expiresAt values; only then allow the existing approved-decision
path to execute.

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